A BARRIER BREAK 



I had proposed to place the winter quarters. It is from the edge 

 of the Barrier, not only in our quadrant locality, but also on the 

 other side of the Antarctic area, that the huge tabular bergs found 

 in the Antarctic waters are calved off. Fractures develop as the ice 

 is influenced by the open water, and these fractures extend until the 

 breaking-point is reached. Then a berg, or perhaps a series of bergs, 

 is left free to float northwards. At the time when we heard and felt 

 the concussion of a break, we were some fifty miles from the Barrier 

 edge, so that the disturbance in the ice must have been very extensive. 



Snow Goggles. 



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